Friday Funnies

Welcome to to Sometimes Saintly Nick's Friday Funnies. We are a bit late in posting the graphic funnies today because one of the Kitty Kids, Little Girl, is now a mommy cat and we spend lots of time visiting the almost-one-week-old kittens, who are living in the walk-in closet:

Alex has more photographs of the new-borns on his blog, 

Alexicon/3 Itty Bitty Kettah

And now, on to the funnies!

Alex says:

Plez sendz us somez moneyz so dat my hoomin bean canz affordz to getz himz an uz kitty kidz fooz an stuffz cause MY bean aint got much moneyz cause pastorz dunt hab big pensions an we lawayz iz running outz of moneyz. OK?

While I Was Offline: 400,000th Visitor to Nick's Bytes

While I was forced offline by Ma Bell, the 400,000th visitor came to Nick's Bytes. As of today, my blog has had 401,053 visitors from 191 nations.

Thanks to all of my readers!

BTW, Alex made a new blog post today, the first in a very long time:

Alex's blog: Alexicon

Alex has a new story photo post on his Alexicon blog entitled Cain and Me

View it HERE.

I Have Concluded...

...that I need another bed! I don't know if you can tell from the following photos, but the mattress and frame of mine are bent so low that they are almost touching the floor:

 

Also, I'm finding that I'm having difficulty sleeping the the bed. For some reason, even using the CPAP, I awaken after an hour or less of sleep unable to breath. I need to take seriously my physician's advise  and find a way to sleep with my head above my chest and, because of my congestive heart failure, my feet at least level with my heart.

Over the past few days, I have been able to sleep longer in my lift chair than in my bed. The only trouble with the lift chair is that I can't roll around and I awaken stiff and painful. (Hmmmm, could that be the reason for these muscle aches I have suffered for the past week? As I grow older, I am finding that I am much less able to make connections than I once was).

My next move is to discover if either Veterans Administration or Medicare can help me obtain a hospital bed that meets my needs.  One with a Tempur-Pedic mattress like the one I had the last time I was hospitalized would be very nice:

Speaking of my bed, ever since we got the electric blanket, Alex no longer naps in nests that he makes on the floor:

The furball writes more about the  e-lek-twik blankie in his latest Alexicon post,

 

Please? We need less than $10 by the end of January to earn a $100 payment.

Christmas Eve Mishmash

Christmas Memories

When I was a kid, Christmas was like Chanukah: 8 days (almost) of presents. My mother had seven siblings, so we had Christmas celebrations at least at three homes:

• Aunt Alma (Mom's sister) & Uncle Frank
• Aunt Lill (Mom's sister) & Uncle Otto
• Mom's family's traditional Christmas Eve gathering.

Then, after Christmas at one of Mom's sibling's homes on Christmas Eve, we'd return to my family's home and celebrate Christmas there on Christmas Day.

Later on Christmas Day, we'd go to one of my father's two siblings home to celebrate Christmas again.

Of course, there were times when the extended family celebration took place at my house, which was OK but as a kid it didn't seem as much fun to me.

Let's see: that's 5 Christmas celebrations and five meals and five sets of presents to open. Maybe not as many gift openings as Chanukah, but many more than most kids had. My childhood Christmases were blessed by family and love and joy.

Speaking of Chanukah

I realize that, except for the mention in Monday's Jokes post, I've not posted anything about Chanukah this year. So:

 BTW, I gave my caregiver a grocery shopping list today and had her do shopping. On the list was Christmas cookies, just in case I have some visitors at my home. When she returned she told me that the grocery had no Christmas cookies but she purchased these that "look like Christmas cookies." These are fine--excellent--so far as I'm concerned, Chanukah cookies taste as good as Christmas cookies:

NEW BLOG POSTS

Alexicon: Alex shares his excitement about his Kwistmaz Sockin:

Nick's Pics: Christmas photos from Christmasses Past:

Graphic Commentaries

Graphics that say more than words:

2009 Seasonal Mishmash

My mother and I had a long telephone conversation this afternoon. She remembered that she was 17 years old when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Her "young adulthood" was taken up by World War II.

Memories of those days came back to her yesterday as she watched a television program that centered on many of the songs of that time. As music often does, the songs tapped many of Mom's memories, both happy and sad.

The video below is for my mother, even though she doesn't have a computer and probably will never see it.

The 3rd post to my newest blog, Nick's Pics, is up. This one is made up of photographs of me playing "cowboy" in my Uncle Frank's backyard.

Alex has a new post on his blog, Alexicon, with pictures of the furball and me watching what ALex calls pawz-ballz on TV:

Often pictures speak much louder than words. I believe that the work of editorial cartoonists may speak the loudest of all. Below are some that I have encountered that speak to me as they address this 2009 hoiliday season. For more editoral cartoons, my I suggest that your browse Daryl Cagle's site?